Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-12-17
EYp.! HYP.! HURRAH!
Eminen. Dr.. Berillon to the Rescue Of
Thumb-sucking Babies Cure Them
by Hypnotization.
but bs sure 10 Accompany II with the
Requisite sugsestion-liow n Fond
Mamt Cured Her Infant With
Assaf~tida.

the thumbs at night. TO which 81 many chi
dran are addicted, and OF which it is mex
to impossible to break them. can be put
stop to by single hypRotizat.on, accom-
panied, of course. with the requisite su.
gestion. The child never bv any chance r.
turns 10 the habit agaiIt though his mem
ory retains no trace of the order or prohi
bition which operates 50 powerfully on lii
will"
have been expecting for some time tina
my old friend. Doc. Berilion, would "a,
something on this subject, and l have been
rather hurt by his continued 81 ence wher
he must have known that the baby enter
prise was being dwarfed because of hi.
repr hsnsible reticence. | think he
mas been Beriilon in speakins
abO 1t it. The doctor is young married
man and hasn't any children, but he writes
me that he has filed articles OF Incorporation
for one. When Doc. becomes happy, be
nighted father, and gets up at the hour OF
several a. m. to walk with tue baby and lei
she moon beams flicker on his rick rack.
while the kid practices vocal So-naughtv
he Will find tina. he Is only on rhe threshold
OF the offspring problem. The baby prob
lem consists first OF addition and then dis
traction.
But | agree with my friend Beril,on on
the ground he has taken in this matter.
have thought the same thing myself for go
ing on year next Christmas and yet did
not voice to the public the idea that was
haunting me. l believe In the Approximation
of babies. first. last and all the time. and
the sooner yon begin the hippin' business
the better il is for the baby.
But Bcr;llon goes farther than | had any
idea he would. He wants TO step the thumb
business by the hyp and a requisite suggeS-
tioD. This seems to me to be going q little
far. but perhaps he is right. Yes. 1 guess
he Is. Ii you give your child hypnotiza,ion.
1t Is b tier 10 have requisite suggestion
around handy. Docs idea | fancy. is to
hsye nice little suggestion accom- papy
each package of thumb.
On the other hand isn't II inst as mabha
that the doctor Is proceeding under mis-
apprehension of facts. Is the habi: of suck
ing their thumbs at night as widespread
among children in this country a he ven
turfs 10 fear? | belieys that their mouths
are pretty widespread. bu, | Cannit be-
iieve that the habit IL gaining ground. !
never Vet in my life saw a crowd of babies
moOGily about street corner
At midnight, eating their midnight lunch of
pale, underdone thumb. And why should
they choose the night time for carrying out
the command that ''Simon says thunh-sup."
Ii Berillon can leave off play ing the Boulsn-
ger NJ rch long enough Ia answer me, the
cable Is at his disposal. Let her cabe
don't think was ever addicted to the
habit of lunching on my thumb suppose
WAS not allowed to- because nav parents
were careful about letting me have too
much swee,meats or anything rich. | never
my thumb W tn app p-tite. and par
never did | oyell ,ad my sensitive
in this manner at night never wen
fo sleep with one poor. dirty little instance
of thumb in that vast assortment of mouth 1
had even In those days Sometimes. might /
have rested my tired arm in there, but never
ny thumb. Whether was hypnotized or
1)t An unable To report, and neither can /
tell whether it was accompanied by the /.
requisite suggestion. Ny father had I
,oirse. irres ular habit Of making any little /
he wished to present with the |
eg and thigh of broken chair. l remam- /
,er tLis particularly once when
.rrpt softly into the kitchen and .
'tole piece Of tragic looking .
pie. His requisite suggestion was that | .
'tsBd up for month or So and eat my
meals of of tie what-kno; in the parlor. .
knew of a case in which child was in .
lined 10 sack his thumb very much. and he .
vas cured Of the habit by an Ingenious de, .
ice of his thoughtful mother. She put
on his thumb every day for
week and he took it like little man. At
he end of that time he was entirely broken
Il the practice, but his pants were perma-
'ent'y vacant, and Willie's little thumb .